This reflective essay explores my intellectual and personal encounters with the scholarship of Johanna Niemi. Rather than offering a comprehensive academic analysis, the essay is structured as a series of episodic moments—both scholarly and personal—that illustrate Niemi’s influence on my thinking. Drawing on themes such as gender, sexuality, legal subjectivity, and violence against women, the essay highlights Niemi’s critical engagement with feminist legal theory, discourse analysis, and openness to interdisciplinary insights and her commitment to inclusivity, and social justice. Through these encounters, I reflect on the evolving nature of legal scholarship in terms of new materialisms and the importance of challenging binary frameworks in law in terms of sex and gender as a continuation of Niemi’s work in the future.